| Judith Frank - 2002 - 252 páginas
...invisible: the soul. Interestingly, Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments opens with the body on the rack: As we have no immediate experience of what other men...what we ourselves should feel in the like situation. Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never... | |
| Edward Fullbrook - 2002 - 324 páginas
...matter as it does in modern neoclassical theory. For, because of this lack of immediate experience, "we can form no idea of the manner in which they are...what we ourselves should feel in the like situation" (TMS 1.1.1.2). Thus the mistake of those who see incomparability of sensations as an impediment to... | |
| Frederick Copleston - 2003 - 452 páginas
...humane; it is found in all men to some degree. Smith explains sympathy in terms of the imagination. 'As we have no immediate experience of what other...conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.'3 When we sympathize with someone's great pain, 'by the imagination we place ourselves in... | |
| Luke Gibbons - 2003 - 326 páginas
...Enlightenment theories of progress, to the dustbin of history. According to Adam Smith, since 'we can have no immediate experience of what other men feel',...what we ourselves should feel in the like situation' (Moral Sentiments, 9). The result of this is that there will always be a shortfall between the intensity... | |
| James Buchan - 2009 - 468 páginas
...'As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel,' he wrote at the opening of the Theory, 'we can form no idea of the manner in which they are...but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in a like situation.'71 This sympathy is carried through into the moral arena. We judge of the propriety... | |
| Adam Smith - 2004 - 260 páginas
...greatest ruffian, the most hardened violator of the laws of society, is not altogether without it. As we have no immediate experience of what other men...what we ourselves should feel in the like situation. Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never... | |
| Gordon Graham - 2004 - 264 páginas
...greatest ruffian, the most hardened violator of the laws of society, is not altogether without it. As we have no immediate experience of what other men...what we ourselves should feel in the like situation. Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never... | |
| Robert C. Solomon - 2004 - 318 páginas
..."sentiments of pleasure and disgust" to play the role that sympathy is called to play in morals.1 ' ("As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can have no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel... | |
| 2004 - 824 páginas
...greatest ruffian, the most hardened violator of the laws of society, is not altogether without it. As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can rorm no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel... | |
| Jean-Pierre P. Changeux, Antonio Damasio, Wolf Singer - 2005 - 184 páginas
...intrudes into us. According to Smith, the way in which we enter into empathic relation may be voluntary ("As we have no immediate experience of what other...we ourselves should feel in the like situation"), but also, as shown in the above-cited example of the "dancer," may be automatically triggered by the... | |
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